ACM Digital Library Enhancements.

In this article the author, who is the new executive director and chief executive officer of the U.S.-based Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), presents new initiatives and services that ACM is launching, as of April 1, 1999. The organization has made major investments and taken significant strides in the area of electronic publishing and services, the ACM Digital Library is the cornerstone of this initiative. Launched just one year ago, the Digital Library has been extremely popular with members because it provides searchable access to all ACM publications and conference proceedings back to 1991. This is a truly valuable resource. One would like to know how information is filtered and delivered. A person would want to build descriptions of his areas of interest, find things based on those descriptions and be informed of the new content in interest areas when it arrives. ACM will be launching new Digital Library services that will support this kind of intelligent use of electronic document collections. Some specifics on the Digital Library enhancements coming this year are listed.